Garment shaping and pressing form.



PATENTED DEC. 3, 1-907.

s. E. DUGGINS. GARMENT SHAPING AND PRESSING FORM.

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APPLIGATIQN FILED NOV. 21, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21, 1906.

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my invention.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL E. DUGGINS, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

GARNEENT SHAPING AND PRESSING FORM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed November 21 1906. Serial No. 344,469.

manipulated means for shaping a garment and holding it to its shaped form for receiving the finishing or final pressing operation.

Generically, the invention comprehends a suitable support, a shaping frame hingedly connected to the said support, and ada ted to be sustained in either a vertical or orizontal position, said shaping frame being composed of adjustable members and means for regulating the same whereby to provide for shaping garments of different sizes.

Inits more complete nature, my invention embodies, in connection with means for sustaining the shaping frame in a vertical or horizontal position, a shaping frame formed of expansible sections, including arm and neck portions and adjusting means cooperatively connected with the several sections in such manner whereby the said sections can be contracted or expanded to bring the different sized garments to the desired form, and for sustaining the garment to its stretched or shaped condition under such rigidity as to admit of the complete pressing or finishing operation thereof.

In its more subordinate features, my invention consists in certain details of construction and peculiar combination of parts, all of which will hereinafter be fully described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1, is a perspective view of my invention, showing the shaping and holding 45' frame at its vertical or garment shaping posi tion in dotted lines, and in full lines, the horizontal or pressing position. vertical transverse section of the appliance,

taken substantially on the line 22 on Fig.

3. Fig. 3, is a vertical section on the line 33 on Fig. 2, showing parts extended in dotted lines. Fig. 4, is a front elevation of Fig. 5, is a longitudinal section of one of the arm shaping devices. Fig. 6, is a horizontal section on the line 66 on Fig. 3. Fig. 7, is a side elevation on an enlarged scale of the pivotal socket and holder for the lower end of the main rod of the shaping and holding frame. Fig. 8, ,is a horizontal section thereof and Fig. 9, is -a detail view of the means for adjustably sustaining the central guide post for providing for the differential expansion movements of the toggle lever connections here- In the practical application of my inven' tion, the same comprises, generally, a main inafter referred to.

:stand or supporting member, a garment shaping frame that is pivotally 'connectible with the main stand and adapted to be sustained in the vertical plane when the are adjusted to shaping the garment pressing to the garment.

r The shaping frame comprises afixedly'held body consisting of front and back portions ,aa having the usual front'and back contour of the body, and these members are fixedly :held with respect to each other by a transversely disposed board or brace member I) which is slotted nearly its entire length, as

best shown in Fig. 3, by reference to which and to Fig. 6, it will be noticed that in the islot c is held an upper, a lower, and an intermediate slide block, which blocks are designated d, e, f, the purposes of which will.

ipresently appear. gg designates a pair of front and back shoulder and neck forms that are made fast to the brace member I) by the screws 1) as shown. hh designate a pair of oppositely disposed formers or shaping members, each substantially Llshaped in cross section and which, in vertical section, have their outer faces h -h" shaped to the vertical contours 3 ,of the sides of the body since they form the means for expanding the garment sidewise and holding it to its shaped condition.

At the upper endeach of the extensible sidemembers has an enlarged mounted or shoulder portion ]2 h that merges with the fixedly held shoulder and neck forms,

and each of the shoulder portions has a centrally disposed longitudinally extended slot h" to receive the headed ends 1', of the adjusting rods I that control the adjustment of the sleeve shaping and holding means, presently again referred to.

The former or shaping members hh are plarts ori'-- 'zontally when it is desired to give the final.

slidably held between the front and back j oining with the intermediately held block f, and the upper ones Z of which are pivotally connected to the upper slide block d, as clearly shown in Fig. 3,. by reference to which it will also be noticed, the upper end of the brace member I), has a vertical aperture 6 in which is held a feed rod m having right and left screw threaded portions 'mm that engage correspondingly threaded sockets I' -2 in the slide blocks d and and by means of which, the turning of the feed rod. spreads or contracts the links ZZ and thereby pushes out or draws in the side members of the frame to suit the shape desired for the garment.

To provide for differential movements of the end members to provide for the desired shapes, the side bars j-j are held. to be set differentially to the slide blocks (Z and f, and:

the toggle" levers Zl by sliding the block 6 up or down in the slot of the bracket piece I) to spread. or close in the upper ends of the bars and to hold the block e to its adjusted. positions, a locking lever n is provided that is pivotally supported. from the central slide block f and has a rack face n. adapted toengage-the lock pin a on the blocke, the parts being arranged: so that the rack face or end n can be pushed back to bring either of its notches into engagement with the pin a when the block is adjusted up or down, a spring a being provided to hold the lever n to its locked position, see Fig. 9.

(D-O designate the arm portions of my shaping? and pressing frame, each of which is constructed substantially on the lines of the body portion and each comprises the oppositely and fixedly disposed members 00 that are oined by transverse brace members 0 -0 in which. are guided the ad.- justing rods 1, each of' which has right and left threads i i 'for engaging the threaded blocks p-p to which the ends of toggle levers 19 -22 connect and which also pivotally join with a pair of oppositely disposed adjustable form sections QQ; as clearly shown-in Fig. 5. The-innerend of each arm section of the complete frame is concaved as at 0 to fit the rounded. or shoulder endof the side membersof the body portion, (see'Fig. 3).

R designates the main support in the nature ofa bar that has a: suitable base for-con- I shown in Fig. 1.

veniently securing it to the shop floor as The upper end of the said supporting bar R is squared as at R and the said end engages a socket R formed in a ball and socket connection shown in detail in Figs. 7 and 8, by reference to which it will be seen that the said connection has a slot way 1" at one side that extends from the horizontal to the vertical plane, whereby to permit the neck or lower end of the brace member b (which carries the ball 10, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 7 that engages the ball socket in the said connection) to swing vertically in the said slot way whereby to bring the shaping frame to the vertical or garment shaping position or in the horizontal or pressing position.

To provide for properly fitting the ball 10 onthe lower end of the brace member 6 within the socket joint, the latter is formed of sections that are bolted together as best shownin- Figs. 7 and 8, by reference to which it will be also observed that inthe upper end of the socket opening in which the brace mem ber 1) moves, is mounted an open ended. clamp spring T that clamps over the neck of the member bwhen it is moved up to the vertical position and holds it to the said position.

In alinement with the standard R is a second standard or support U having a concaved seat a and a slot 10 communicating therewith at the upper end for receiving the upper ball and neck portion of the brace member I), when the frame is suuing down to the horizontal or pressing position, as shovni in Fig. 1.

By reason of connecting the shaping frame members to the adjusting device and mounting the adjusting devices on the brace mem ber b as shown and described, it is manifest that when at the pressing position, the frame will form a rigid frame on which the garment is held in perfect shape, ready to receive the final fitting, the pressing operation which can be conveniently and artistically done since the garment with the frame can be rotated in. the supports.

From the foregoing taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the complete construction and the manner-in which the garment can be set or shaped and. then posltioned for the pressing operation, will bereadily apparent.

By the use of my invention, coats of almost any size can be set or shaped by simply adjusting the feed rods for the body, and the sleeves, and by adjusting the slide blocks 2 the action of the said feed rod and the meanscontrolled thereby may be regulated to suit the particular style the garment is-to be shaped.

While I prefer to arrange the several parts as shown and described, they may be varied or modified without departing from my i11- vention or the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a pair of disconnected supports, a garment shaping and holding frame hinged toone of the supports, and means for sustaining the frame either in a vertical or a horizontal plane with respect to the two supports.

2. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a pair of separated supporting members, a garment holding and shaping frame rotatably mounted on the supporting members and having a hinged connection with one of the supporting members whereby it can be moved to a vertical or horizontal position with respect to the two supporting members, as set forth.

4. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a pair of suitable supports, a garment holdin and shaping means connected thereto for a justment to a vertical or to a horizontal position and rotatably mounted with respect to the said supports.

5. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a pair of supports, a garment holding and shaping frame hingedly mounted in one of the said supports, its upper end being arranged to rest on the other support when the frame is swung to a horizontal position, the said frame, when horizontally mounted on the supports, being rotatably held thereon, as set forth.

6. In an appliance of the character described, a garment holding and shaping frame, consisting of two fixedly held front and back body sections, a support to which the said two sections are connected, two side sections disconnected from the body sections laterally adjustable with respect to each other and to the support, sleeve members mounted on the adjustable sections, means mounted on the support for moving the adjustable sections to and from each other, and means cooperating with the sleeve members for adjusting the said members, as set' forth.

7. In an apparatus of the character described, a support, front and back shaping members securedthereto, two end half sections slidably mounted between the front and back shaping members, each having a rounded shoulder portion, arm members each having a concaved end for engaging the rounded shoulder of the slidable sections, means for pivotally connecting the arms to said side sections and means mounted on the support and cooperatively connected to the two side sections for moving said sections toward and from each other, as set forth.

8. In a garment shaping and holding appliance, the combination with a centrally disposed supporting member, a garment holding frame consisting of two fixedly held sections and two sections wholly adjustable laterally with respect to the support, said sections including members telescopically engaging the fixedly held sections for closing the gap between the two sections and adjusting devices mounted on the support and connected with the arment holding movable frame sections or laterally adjusting said frame sections, as set forth.

9. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with a support, the front and back sections and the j shaped side sections, of a lever bar fulcrumed near one end on each of the side sections, an upper, a lower and intermediate slide block mounted on the support, toggle levers connected to the upper and central slide blocks and to the upper end of the lever bars, link -members pivotally connected to the lower slide block and the lower end of the lever bars, a single feed screw mounted on the support having right and left screw threads, the upper and central slide blocks having screw apertures to receive the said screw rod and means for holding the lower slide block to its vertically adjusted position, as set forth.

10. In a garment shaping and pressing means of the character described, the combination with one of the L] shaped side members, having a convexed or shoulder portion provided with a slot, of a sleeve setting and shaping means comprising a pair of opposite form sections braced to each other, a pair of l shaped laterally adjustable sections mounted between the other sections, means mounted in the braces of the said sections for setting the movable sections, said means consistin of a turn rod having right and left threads, a head on the inner end, the neck of which plays through the slot in the U shaped side sections, a pair of threaded blocks that engage the right and left threads of the rod and toggle levers that connect said blocks with the adjustable sections, substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

SAMUEL E. DUGGINS.

Witnesses:

J. E. BECHER, L. KIRSTIN. 

